Producer / DJ's Joey Riot & Kurt have formed a new record label called Lethal Theory Raw. The idea, according to the guys, is for newer talent to get a release out there. The first release coming out in May (store) will be as follows:

Forever and Ever on this Musical Endeavour! Another live show week is here on Happyhardcore.com radio!

First up is The Australian Hardcore Show with DJ Cotts & DJ Ravine followed by DJ Silver ripping it up from Tokyo, Japan. DJ Bluecore then keeps the hardcore comin' with The Sweedish Candy Show featuring special guest Defective. The North American Hardcore Movement delivers the goods with Rize, Starr & Special Guest superstar Marc Smith! and to finish it all up we have the Video Aussie Hardcore Show with DJ Cotts!

We have been overwhelmed by the number of custom pre-orders for the new hardcore addiction 2 CD mixed by DJ's Cotts & Ravine. We are going to have to close the custom autographed versions of the CD due to the shear volume of orders (this is not a blag). We will still be taking pre-orders upto the release date and then orders after that but they wont be autographed.

If you wish to get your CD signed by the guys with your own custom message that the guys will do a special video countdown for the best messages please get your pre-order in before the 26th of April 2009. Pre-orders after this time will not be autographed.

Many thanks to the hundreds of people that have already pre-ordered from the site direct, this is an independent release so you are really supporting the artists, DJ's and this site by picking up a copy.

The URL is super easy to find to pre-order just goto http://www.happyhardcore.com/ha and you're good! We also have a discounted bundle set for v1 & v2 if you have not already picked up the first album.

The day after the artwork was released from Universal via a press release HappyHardcore.com has secured the tracklist for the upcoming Bonkers - The Original Hardcore (aka Bonkers 18), from All around the world (AATW).

Bonkers - The Original Hardcore is a 3 disc CD mixed by DJ's Sharkey, Chris Unknown and Hixxy and is set for release May 11th 2009 by AATW / Universal.

Are you ready to get Twisty? Another live show week is here on Happyhardcore.com radio!

This week is The Australian Hardcore Show with a two hour set from DJ Cotts, DJ Silver then takes to the decks from Tokyo, Japan. DJ Bluecore follows right up with The Sweedish Candy Show and The North American Hardcore Movement gets crazy with Leto & Audio X! Then to finish it all up we have the Video Aussie Hardcore Show with DJ Cotts!

Update: Artwork found from a press release, confirming DJ's Hixxy, Sharkey and Chris Unknown. Not sure why it is called "The Original Hardcore" as Ministry of Sound have a CD series called "Original Hardcore" as well.

Press release:Bonkers - The Original Hardcore is the new 3CD hardcore album from AATW / UMTV.

Bonkers - the newly acquired hardcore brand by AATW and UMTV is a hardcore institution - previously reaching it's 17th album before this new TV advertised album which is set to take the charts

Hardcore is flying - this is seen by the recent success of Scooter, Darren Styles and Ultrabeat not forgetting the other hardcore compilation albums currently on the scene including Hardcore Til I Die & Clubland Xtreme Hardcore 4. We have seen tremendous success in the Hardcore scene and Bonkers will replicate this. The track listing will feature acts such as Scooter, Styles & Breeze, Dougal & Gammer, Flip & Fill, Darren Styles, Hixxy and LMC.

The difference between this and other Hardcore albums is that this is Bonkers! Bonkers is a widely recognised brand with a huge loyal following and this TV album will take that brand to the next level. The new Bonkers album will be the first of its kind establishing on TV the Bonkers brand and setting up the series for more instalments.

The album features the old identity of the Bonkers brand - retaining the original (but now super-rendered) logo and the original DJs as they are the biggest names in the Hardccore scene today - Hixxy, Sharkey and Unknown but incorporates new elements with the bright sleeve and brand new track listing featuring the biggest names around.

The album will be supported by a heavy TV marketing campaign, support across all the terrestrial channels and Sky - will also be running a Bauer promotion featuring the album on channels such as 4music & Smash Hits - we will also have the full support of Clubland TV- week one spend will be 60K+. We will also be running massive online campaigns across all the UMG, AATW & Clubland sites...

This album will be released on the 11th May.

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Guess what popped up on Amazon this morning, what looks to be the final title name for the new Bonkers album, 'Bonkers - The Original Hardcore'. This album released by AATW (all around the world) is distributed by Universal TV, which is the same company as the Clubland X-treme hardcore CD's, this most certainly the correct release

We are yet to officially confirm all DJ's involved, artwork and tracklists but Amazon has the release date as May 11 2009.

We have also got a very special pre-order for everyone, since the guys have such a youtube following and their live radio shows are popular for shoutouts and listeners we have created the ultimate shoutout! When you preorder you can enter in a message that Cotts & Ravine will personally sign onto each and every copy pre-ordered! One the pre-order period closes and all copies signed the guys will do a top countdown of all the best comments in a special video for everyone to checkout! The winner of the countdown will receive a special prize!

The CD's ship mid to end of may so the pre-order is nearly 30 days in advance to allow for the guys to sign everything and get it shipped back for packaging.

The URL is super easy to find to pre-order just goto http://www.happyhardcore.com/ha and you're good! We also have a discounted bundle set for v1 & v2 if you have not already picked up the first album.

Cotts & Ravine have also created a behind the scenes making footage of the album, check it out as well and pre-order now!

Hardcore, yeah crew that's what you came for! Another live show week is upon us on Happyhardcore.com radio!

Kicking off this week is The Australian Hardcore Show featuring DJ Cotts & DJ Ravine with special guest Rushnosh, DJ Silver then takes to the decks from Tokyo, Japan bringing that upfront style! DJ Bluecore follows bringing the cheese we love on the Sweedish Candy Show and The North American Hardcore Movement then blows your mind with Milo & JimniCricket! (w00t!) To wrap up the week with your video fix we have the Video Aussie Hardcore Show with DJ Cotts.

After the launch of the Hardcore Underground 3 album, this May sees the launch of the brand new Hardcore Underground 12" label.

According to the guys the label featuring a plethora of artists and styles with top of the range artwork and packaging. Distribution is through Icon so all good underground record shops worldwide including Shop.HappyHardcore.com will stock the releases. Quality is paramount but aside from that, anything goes stylistically, releases 1-4 featuring tunes heavily supported by the likes of Brisk, Marc Smith, Stu Allan, Kutski, Robbie Long. Kevin Energy and Sharkey to name but a few.

We're been hearing you and we've done it, two of the biggest uk / happy hardcore DJ's on the youtube and HappyHardcore.com will be mixing the new Hardcore Addiction 2 album!

The mix will be a back to back single disc similar to Hardcore Addiction vol 1 mixed by DJ's Darwin & Silver... The release is compiled and mixed by both DJ's and features alot of the tracks the DJ's play in their mixes plus a new bigger names. The album is fully licensed and released from Japan, HappyHardcore.com will have direct orders up for everyone to get their hands on it. The packaging will be full Japanese CD style with spine art and plastic wrapped. Release date is set for Mid to end of May 2009.

If you've not heard of Cotts & Ravine, once you manage to push off the rock your under, they are the most subscribed hardcore DJ's on youtube, their video views rank in the 10s of millions! We will be running a very special pre-order for Cotts & Ravine fans and supporters of the album this new CD release, details to come soon shortly.

Another week brings another round of hardcore live show goodness on Happyhardcore.com radio!

This weeks madness starts with The Australian Hardcore Show featuring DJ Cotts & DJ Ravine with special guest DJ Nomad, followed up by DJ Silver from Tokyo, Japan! The Swedish Candy show then brings the cheese with DJ Bluecore featuring special guest Zendorion. The North American Hardcore Movement then rocks the radio with Axiom & Spunky and to wrap up the week with your video fix we have the Video Aussie Hardcore Show with DJ Cotts.

Daylight Savings changes are still happening so please check the show times for your area below!

Woohoo! New releases land in Shop.HappyHardcore.com! New bits from Darren Styles and Mark Breeze on Future World, Brisk kicks of with a great tune with Vagabond on Blatant Beats, rippin Orbit1 remix on Electrik Records, massive 3 tune yellow vinyl from Warped Science and a 4 track EP from Hardcore Masif!

We've got some more info on the new Bonkers release from AATW, we say the new Bonkers release from AATW instead of Bonkers 18 because after chatting with the head of AATW, while not confirming anything, it seems AATW will restart the bonkers series and have a different look to it (ie. moving away from a cartoon design).

In other bonkers news, UK based producer Hixxy has confirmed information in a video interview stated in an interview that himself, Chris Unknown and Sharkey will be mixing the new album. Sharkey has been known to be mixing the album for a while Hixxy has confirmed the two other DJ's. While we're not sure when the video was shot and since the actual lineup for the new bonkers has actually switched around so many times when we attempted at confirm this information with AATW but was told that information "was close" but not 100%. This again may or may not be the final lineup, we'll have to wait a few days (we're told) before the info is all out. When asked about a theme for the new album we were told there is no set theme like previous bonkers albums.

In more Bonkers news, an online retailer has bumped the release date of a title called "Bonkers" from April 27th 2009 to May 18th 2009, at this point we are all assuming this is the actual title and release date. We'll keep you updated as we get the info.

The Hardcore Underground crew have posted a small video teaser of some of the tracks from UK based hardcore producer Darwin, some of these tracks feature on the new album and some are still forthcoming...

Don't forget the Hardcore Underground 3 pre-order ends tomorrow, if you don't pre-order from us before tomorrow you wont get the special bonus Darwin track and the special price of only 8 pounds. Click HERE to PRE-ORDER if you haven't already. Pre-orders are now closed. Thanks to all that ordered from us!